Check out these headlines from today’s Albuquerque Journal, scattered among the day’s trivialities and ads:
- 0.91 inches of rain in 8 months | ABQ Journal By John Fleck
- Drought watch: no improvement in New Mexico
- Pecos fire rips through 500 acres
- Fire danger closes Sandia Mountains
- Magdalena R.D. fire restrictions to begin
- Starving cattle find new home
and, paradoxically,
- Snowstorm closes I-70 west of Denver (444 miles north of Abq)
And we end with gallows humor:
» Drought watch: quotes of the month | ABQ Journal
“I’m worried that the dirt’s gonna catch fire.”
– Adrian Oglesby, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District board member
update: No sooner posted than we have a second contender:
“It’s forgotten how to rain down here.” Phil King, New Mexico State University/Elephant Butte Irrigation District hydrologist